Improvement in carriage-wheels



`tire or ns'ediin connection with the supplementalv one, as shown in Fig, I.

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ARTHUR PRENTISS, OF PRENTISS VALE, PENNSYLVANIA,

Letters .Patent No. 64,794, dated May 14, 1867. t

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TOALL WHOM I'l MAY CONGERN:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR PRENTISS, of Prentiss Vale, MeKean'oounty, Pennsylvania, have made new and useful Improvements 'in Carria'ge-Wlieelsg and I dohereby deel-are the following to be a full .and exact description of the same, reference being had to the drawings that accompany and form a part ofi-these specifications, in whichv i Figure I is 'a view of a portion of a felloe-tire and spoke-socket and felloe-clasp.

FigureII, sectional view of the same.

Figure III, sectional view of soeket,.felloetire block, and screw or bolt.

Figure IV, view of block and screw.

Letter A represents a wheel-felice, made ot' metalswaged or rolled into the. desired form. Letter B, a tire provided with grooves@ c to receive' the edges of the felloe B, as 'seen in Fig. I. Letters D D', spoke-sockets,

provided withvthe ilanges EE made to lit. the feline, as the drawings show. Letter g, small block of metal or wood to fill the coneavity of the felloe at the place where the spokes come. Letter h, screw-bolt, running through the block g, and fitting with threads into the base of the spoke-socket, as seen in Fig. II.

The object of my invention is to provide a durable and graceful wheel, and one that may have a-n accidentally broken spoke replaced in an expeditions manner without taking oi the riln of' .the wheel. This latter feature is provided for by the use of'the spoke-sockets D. 'f'lhese sockets, in eor|junction"with the screw t and' block y, bind the felloe inplaee firmly, whether said felloe is made vin one or several pieces. For very heavy wheels the tire B may be replaced by a hand of wood or nietal and then asteel tire put over the wheel, as represented in Figa-I, the red lines showing this outer tire. Y l

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is-

The wheel, riin, or felloe, when swaged or otherwise formed into suitable shape of s heet metal, either in one or many pieces, in combination with the grooved tire B, either when this grooved tix-eB is made the principal ARTHUR P RENTISS.

Witnesses:

GHAs. F. WILSON, D. C. OALLEY. 

